Here are some of my experiences...
I don't remember exactly the reason, but when I was smaller, I really disliked honey. Whenever I only smelled it, I felt close to vomiting.
Many people throughout my life have told me that it's very good, etc. but that didn't have any influence on me. I remained stubborn about that
Until I read (as I'm in the choir and I'm also wishing to become a singer) more and more that honey is truly good for the voice and also helps against colds (Yes, also my mother told me such things, but I had to read and understand the true backgrounds of what honey does until I wanted to find a remedy to my "allergy"!).
Recently, about two weeks ago, I told to myself that honey is not bad, since everybody says so, why shouldn't I, too eat it? It's also good and healthy for me!
So I opened the honey bottle and ate from it, and to my surprise I didn't feel dizzy anymore, and I also enjoyed it. Since then I regularly eat honey and mix it with other stuff I eat for breakfast.
A probably less convenient example are the ways I convince myself to avoid a pain I have since about one year: the doctors told it's trigeminal neuralgia, and after having read alot about it I also "visualized" the nerves in my head. Some people say it's very uncommon for teenagers, but it seems that I have it.
After having rehearsed certain knowledges about neurons and the parts of the human brain I told to myself:
have I been too much depressed in the past few months, that my nervous system couldn't keep it all? I have the trigeminal neuralgia on my right side and I've read that in depressed people the frontal-right part of the cortex is the most active one. Did I "over-use" it?
[maybe another time I'll explain why I had been depressed, but the important thing is that now I am not anymore ^_^]
Then I tried to calculate when I got the neuralgia pains.: The longer the periods I was happy and enjoying my life, the less nights I have to stay awake with that pain.
The obvious conclusion: I have to be happy
It seems a very vague conclusion, but the day itself I got that conclusion I was having the neuralgia pain. The moment I started thinking of happy things and really started dancing and listening to music, it simply vanished.
And since then I didn't get the acute pain for months, except when it's too cold. But also then (and this is probably not that healthy!) I tell myself: the cold is very nice, enjoy the touch of it on your face.
And the pain fades away.
